MyHeritage's deepfake tool animates photos of dead relatives

Genealogy website MyHeritage has unveiled a bizarre new online tool that can animate old photos of deceased family members. The free deepfake technology, called Deep Nostalgia, takes any photo and animates the subject's face – with strangely realistic and unsettling results. Examples provided by MyHeritage show historical figures, including Queen Victoria, Mark Twain and Florence Nightingale, come to life. MyHeritage says the tech gives history'a fresh new perspective' by producing a depiction of how a person'could have moved and looked if captured on video'. It's been developed by researchers at Israel-based firm D-ID, which specialises in video reenactment using deep learning.